We join the nation in mourning the death of Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmad, Captain (Rtd.) Monsur Ali and AHM Quamruzzaman, the four ...

Publishers and bookshop owners across the country kept their businesses closed for hours yesterday protesting the murder of Faisal Arefin Dipan, owner of Jagriti Prokashani, and brutal attack on another publisher and two bloggers.

A prosecution witness yesterday linked two of three accused in a war crimes case to the murder of two freedom fighters in Habiganj during the Liberation War in 1971.

Prof Beggzadi Mahmuda Nasir, founder principal of Central Women's College and founder vice chancellor of Central Women's University, died at a Dhaka hospital yesterday morning.

Before 14-year-old Ridat Farhan could recover from the shock of his father's murder, he had to sit for the Junior School Certificate exams yesterday.

The international community yesterday condemned the latest of a series of attacks on free thinkers in Bangladesh, which left publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan killed and another publisher along with two others injured.

"Yesterday's [Saturday's] attacks are isolated incidents and such attacks occur also in other countries."

The latest killings indicate that the killers have expanded their target. Can it get any worse than this? Will it be fear mongering to suggest that the next targets might be those who sell their books and even those who buy them?

The journalists are increasingly becoming an engendered species. And we are reminded of this unpleasant fact once again as we observe the 'International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists' (IDEI) today.

Today is the first death anniversary of Mir Waliuzza-man, a former captain of Bangladesh Army, a writer, a development activist and a journalist, says a press release.

In two violent and gory incidents yesterday, four publishers and bloggers were attacked resulting in the death of one and severe injuries

The three-member investigation committee formed in the aftermath of the sinking of a coal-carrying vessel in the Shela River in the

Had police made any headway in the murder cases of four bloggers and done their jobs properly, yesterday's attack on publishers and

The district correspondent of the Daily Amar Desh and former library secretary of Bogra Press Club Asaduzzaman

Senior Journalist M Motiur Rahman died of old age complications at his residence in the capital on Friday night.

We are amazed at the report of “NGO officials” at a remote village in Sadurapul upazila in Kishoreganj embezzling about Tk 37 lakh from poor rural women in the name of capacity-building and income-generation.

We fully endorse the anxiety expressed by a local human rights organisation at the increasing incidence of violence against children.

Bangladesh is gradually becoming an unsafe place for children, observed eminent citizens at a programme organised on the 20th birth

Speakers at an exhibition yesterday stressed the need for creating public places for city dwellers as the capital's

A discussion on “ISISPHARMA Products” at The Daily Star Centre in the capital yesterday. Jennifer Dewavrin, marketing director; and